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Sheena Metal was most recently seen in the the VDAY New York 2006
Celebrity Charity Cast's presentation of Eve Ensler's The
Vagina Monologues.

The two evening,
charity performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues
was a smash hit for the Upper East Side! Running April 1st &
2nd, the celebrity cast and new monologues by playwright Eve Ensler
brought pertinent attention to the continued abuse of women throughout
the world, with particluar emphasis on the "Comfort Women"
-- the group of women forced into sexual subservience by the Japanese
military in WWII.

On
the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War II, V-Day joins women and
men around the world in calling for justice to ‘Comfort Women’
survivors. The euphemism ‘comfort women’ was coined by imperial
Japan to refer to young females of various ethnic and national backgrounds
who were forced to offer sexual services to the Japanese troops during
the Asia/Pacific Wars between 1932 and 1945. Some were minors; others
were deceptively recruited by middlemen; still more were detained and
forcibly abducted. Estimates of the number of ‘comfort women’
range between 50,000 to 200,000.

In
the early 1990s, Korean victims of Japan’s military sexual slavery
broke their silence and came forward nearly a half century after WWII,
followed by other survivors in China, Taiwan, North Korea, the Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Timor L’Este. Now the
aging survivors are dying off one by one without redress from the Japanese
government, which still denies legal responsibility. The V-Day 2006
Spotlight joins the ‘comfort women’ survivors and women’s
groups from East and Southeast Asia in calling for justice and reparations
for the unanswered war crimes.

V-Day
NY Spotlight 2006: The Lotus Project

Proceeds
from the benefit go towards supporting the V-Day mission as well as
The Comfort Women. Proceeds will also support a local, V-Day approved,
organization. In this case, it is a grassroots organization called “The
Lotus Project,” dedicated to working with women who have been
abused and end up in prison. The primarily goal of The Lotus Project
is to educate, and will focus on children in schools and colleges too.

Using
the symbol of the lotus, the project is about people rising above the
difficulties of their life to find new meaning. Its aim is to help them
blossom, despite hardships. So many people go through great difficulties
to emerge as whole people. The “Lotus symbol” becomes a
metaphor for rising above adversity. It is a very comprehensive program
that originally began in 2000 to help women in prison.